Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka and Tripura are yet to follow directives on timely payment of salaries to healthcare workers engaged in Covid-19, the Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court, which said...

Many healthcare professionals who have recovered from Covid-19 are reluctant to work in Covid wards after resuming duty. Some, mostly nurses and junior doctors, have even quit, officials of several pr...

The Union health ministry on Thursday said it had received 131 compensation claims from families of healthcare workers who had died on coronavirus duty, putting for the first time a figure on the casu...

Queen Elizabeth II knighted Captain Tom Moore on Friday, recognising the 100-year-old for lifting the spirits of the nation during the gloom of the novel coronavirus outbreak by raising over $40 milli...

The Bengal cabinet on Wednesday approved a policy to offer jobs to the next of kin of state government employees who die from Covid-19 while on duty to fight the spread of the disease.  Chief mi...

A dip in a pond, taking the car out from the garage and buying a packet of cigarettes were some of the reasons why people flouted Covid curbs in a Behala containment zone on Wednesday. Metro spent mo...

The Assam health department on Wednesday revoked its July 6 order on 11-day duty and three-day quarantine for doctors and frontline workers on Covid duty, following a letter from the Assam branch of t...

Doctors in state government hospitals in 18 states, including Bengal, will receive online guidance on Covid-19 treatment from specialists at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, the...

Health workers in many countries with excellent healthcare infrastructure but hit hard by the pandemic appear to have much higher levels of satisfaction with the support they received from their gover...